New glance of the American president. Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had withdrawn from his former advisor COVID, Doctor Anthony FAUCI, the protection system he had benefited for several years due to death threats issued against him.
This scientist and former senior American official, 84, had become in 2020 the face of the American response to the pandemic of Covid-19 and had received death threats on this occasion. Known for his outspokenness, he had often contradicted Donald Trump, and was hated by a part of the right, but also by conspiracy and anti-vax movements.
“You cannot benefit from protection for the rest of your life just because you have worked for the government,” said Donald Trump on Friday at a press conference in North Carolina.
Doctor Fauci is the last former senior official to lose his protection since the return to power of the Republican. Donald Trump's ex-advocacy adviser to the White House National Security, John Bolton, and his former diplomacy chief Mike Pompeo, have been the subject of similar measures.
-“They have all earned a lot of money, they can start a private security service,” said the American president, before slipping: “I can give them some numbers of very good security agents. Asked by a journalist on what would happen if something happened to one of them, the Republican dropped: “I would certainly not take responsibility. According to American media, Anthony Fauci has started a private security team to ensure their protection.
The scientist directed the American National Institute for Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 38 years and advised Donald Trump and then Joe Biden. He played a role in the struggles against COVID-19 and AIDS. He was one of the elected officials and former civil servants to have been pardoned preventively by Joe Biden just before he left the White House. A procedure justified by the Democrat to save them “partisan” investigations or prosecution, and strongly criticized by Donald Trump.
While thanking Joe Biden for his gesture, Anthony Fauci had assured Monday that he had “committed any crime” likely to motivate “an investigation or criminal proceedings”.
